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              . mining society — meeting at dr drinker's home at 8 p m wednesday february 17 college lecture — the diamond by dr g f kunz in the physical laboratory at 11.30 p m friday february 19 basket ball — lehigh vs del aware college at delaware college saturday february 20 gym meet rutgers vs lehigh in the gymnasium at 8 p m sat urday february 20 miners meet the regular february meeting will be held on wednesday even ing february 17 at the home of dr drinker the papers are as follows rees mo the develop ment of blast furnaces in the lehigh valley gorman 10,"bes semer practice rogers 10 " smelters in utah there will also be an outside speaker in the last game of the season to be played on the home floor lehigh suffered defeat at the hands of the strong swarthmore quintet on sat urday night swarthmore has always been a good attraction at lehigh last saturday's game be ing no exception as all the available seating room in the gymnasium was occupied by lehigh supporters both teams started strong and swarthmore had the honor of scoring the first points of the game street soon secured a goal for lehigh followed by a foul by dayett making the score 3 to 2 in favor of lehigh the score was then tie at 4 and at 6 after which lehigh was unable to coup with the whirlwind playing of swarth more lehigh had to contend against a very strong defense and was unable to score any more points in this half which ended 13 to 6 in favor of swarthmore at the beginning of the second hplf no changes were made by either team this half was very rough and a large number of fouls were called which however did not effect materially either score for about five minutes lehigh played their opponents off their feet pass ing and shooting at will un fortunately swarthmore broke this up and thus prevented lehigh from tieing the score kruger re placed gilchrist during this half the second half ended 25 to 14 in favor of swarthmore every man on both teams play ed well a fact which was necessary to prevent sure defeat street had gilchrist and kruger to look after at center and it is needless to say that he held his own osbourne and kiefe suffered no damage at the hands of kruger who seemed to have it in for the little fellows captain davies played his usual heady game while dayett played well at forward eberle was clearly the star in defense for swarthmore while griffin and smith did con siderable goal shooting line up lehigh swatcthmore dayett forward g riff n captain osbourne forward smith street center gi lch rist kruger davies g uard . .... bough ton captain keife guard eberle field goals — smith 4 gilchrist 2 eberle 2 griffin 1 kruger 1 boughton 1 street 2 kiefe 2 davies 1 foul goals—griffin 3 dayett 4 referee — stobaeus lehigh timekeepers — ewing lehi g h dilliston swarthmore time of halves — 20 minutes lackawanna county club there will be a meeting of the lackawanna county club directly after the lecture on friday in the physical laboratory as this is a very important meeting it is de sired that all men who come from lackawanna county be present whether members of the club or new jersey club meeting there will be a meeting of the lehigh new jersey club on friday morning immediately after the college lecture plans for a smok er and other forms of entertainment for new jersey men will be discuss ed and it is requested that all men turn out life in the great white world immediately after the game of basket ball with c t s on friday evening february 12th the second of a series of interesting lectures in the l u c a lecture course was given by evelyn briggs bald win the famous arctic explorer he spoke on the subject life in the great white world with which he is quite familiar in his introduction he stated that he is neither interested in the location oi the pole nor in the ex pense connected therewith but that he is interested in the ex ploration of the arctic region his entire lecture was illustrated with fine lantern slides showing the various phases of life in the arctic regions and the difficulties en countered on the trips which he has made all of the slides shown were prepared from pictures taken by mr baldwin's party and they portrayed better than words can express the hardships to be dealt with by the ambitious explorers of the extreme north pictures of glaciers icebergs esquimos and their methods of hunting the seal walrus reindeer and polar bear were also shown baldwin has visited the polar regions four times since 1893 and from the data collected on these trips together with the information obtained from other explorers who have visited the north he has de cided to cross the polar regions by drifting across on an ice floe wreckage from the jeanette which went to pieces off delong island in the siberian sea was later pick ed up on the south eastern shore of greenland a/lmiral melville's casks set afloat on the coast of greenland in the course of three and one-half years drifted to the coast of alaska from these and other indications baldwin concludes that a floating ice field starting from a point in bering strait north of 73 degrees latitude would like wise drift with the currents across the polar sea and in the course of three and one-half years reach the open sea somewhere between green land and the coast of norway his idea is to build a hardy ship on one of these ice floes established a camp of portable houses with a plentiful supply of logs for fuel and casks filled with oil and provisions scattered over the tloe and drift with it should the ice floe be broken into smaller pieces there would still be the ship with enough logs and casks of food left to support the adventurers continued on third page mr baldwin's plans for his con templated trip include a party of scientists naturalists and artists who will have on their long voyage full opportunity to study the magnetic forces of the earth the aurora borealis the secrets of the chemical society lecture by h s miner 88 a small but appreciative audience had the pleasure of hearing h s miner 88 deliver a lecture on the developments of modern in candescent gas lighting thurs day evening mr miner who is chief chemist of the welsbach company is an authority upon the subject of the rare earths and their uses in artificial light making he first traced the history of the discoveries of the peculiar pro perties of the rare earths and finally their application to the manufacture of incandescent mantles by dr howe baron von welsbach owing to the com parative scarcity of minerals ex tremely rich in thorium cerium lanthiuum and other elements of this group the rise of the industry was not rapid for many years prior to thesediscoveries mantlesof platinum wtre being tried on the bunsen burner it was finally found however that monazite sand contained sufficient thorium from 3 to 15 to serve as a com mercial source of that necessary element mr miner then described the mining and concentration of the monazite its extraction as the nitrate and its final application to gether with cerium as the incan descent producing elements in a mantle about 99 thorium and 1 cerium give the most satis factory results the mantles are simply fine knit ringers of cotton which after a thorough cleaning are dipped in the lighting fluid the cotton is then burned off and the mantles hardened under pressure at high temperature to prevent breakage in packing they are then dipped in soluble cotton fluid or collodian dried trimmed and mounted in the shape with which we are so familiar mr miner had an extensive collection of samples and minerals which gave his hearers an accurate idea as to the manufacture of welsbach mantles and the materials used therein he further illustrat ed his lecture with stereoptican slides of monazite mining the chemical society extends to mr miner a vote of thanks as a token of their appreciation of his kindness in givirg up his time etc for their benefit mr miner was a member of the class of 1888 and is one of lehigh's most loyal alumni prof stewart reports volume 61 of popular science monthly as missing from the university li brary any i erson about college having it wil kindly return it at once the volume includes the last six numbers of the magazine from july to january the brown and white lehigh university lecture by baldwin south bethlehem pa tuesday february 10 1909 basket ball swarthmore defeats lehigh 25-14 vol xvi calendar mustard and cheese — re hearsal in drown hall at 7 p m tuesday february 16 m ecu anic at society — meeting in williams hall at 7.45 p m tuesday february 16 electrical society — meeting in the physical laboratory at 7.80 p m tuesday february 10 glee clvb — rehearsal at ] 30 p m in drown hall wednesday february 17 and saturday feb ruary 20 mandolin clvb — behearsal in drown hall at 3 p m wednes day february 17 and at 3.80 p m sunday february 21 band practice — in the physical laboratory at 7.30 wednesday february 17 and thursday feb ruary 18 no 33